CBC NewsArchaeologists are raising doubts about findings put forward by a 15-year-old boy from Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Quebec, who believes he discovered what could be the ruins of a lost 4,600-year-old city in Mexico.
William Gadoury, a Grade 10 student at Académie Antoine-Manseau in Joliette, received widespread praise for using ancient star charts and the positions of known Mayan ruins to locate a possible Mayan city.
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Point of BeginningInnovation is no stranger to geospatial technology and the surveyors who use it, but recent LiDAR advancements have left many within the profession wondering what it all means for them.
While a range of specialized LiDAR technologies for various applications has been available to surveyors for years, linear mode LiDAR has generally been accepted as the most conventional LiDAR approach. READ MORE

GIS UserWho cares where Waldo is? Almost every day, I open Twitter and look in the left column at what is trending. I think of how I can leverage that to increase my likes and retweets. If something is trending on Twitter, it's likely a factor on Facebook and other social media platforms.
More important is what is trending in my area and my particular business niche, and I have saved searches on Twitter and Google alerts that tell me what those things are doing worldwide.READ MORE

GPS WorldFor more than 41 years, many of us who were there in the beginning have been discussing the attributes, capabilities, enabling features and shortcomings of GPS and other space-based PNT (position, navigation and timing) systems. You have likely heard most of them.
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The National ReviewIn order for subject-matter to be eligible for patent protection, the claimed invention must be directed to one of the four statutory categories under 35 U.S.C. 101: process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. When a patent claims an abstract concept, the claim is often struck down by courts as failing to meet this patent-eligibility test. READ MORE

Smart Grid NewsRecently, Royal Dutch Shell announced 10,000 job cuts worldwide. It's just one more blow the oil and gas industry has taken over the past year from lower than anticipated oil prices. Analysts expect 250,000 jobs to have been shed worldwide in 2015 and more in 2016.
"It is certain that job losses have continued," said Texas economist Karr Ingham. "We now appear to be well beyond that (initial) estimate — and the end is not in sight."
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Daily OThe proposed Indian government law on maps is yet another example of how Indians tend to accept symbolism as a substitute for reality. In this, the Modi government has proved to be no different from its predecessors.
When confronted with a terrorist attack in Pathankot, it fought a mighty diplomatic battle in a UN committee and with China — instead of frontally dealing with the problem.READ MORE

Government TechnologyCalifornia has redesigned its CA.gov homepage so that it's a dynamic portal instead of a static website.
The new look and new features include geospatial capabilities that tailor imagery and content based on the user's location, reorganized presentation emphasizing access to e-government services, and a full-service content management system on the back end.
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Inside GNSSThe legal and regulatory framework of the Russian Federation covers not only the GLONASS system, but the country's overall positioning, navigation and timing system as well.
The term PNT is a synonym for navigation activities as defined in the Federal Law on Navigation Activities. The PNT system in the Russian Federation is defined as the combination of administrative and technical means that provide spatial and time data to all user groups, with GLONASS as a key element.
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